In between reading "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" by Lee Smolin, and in "the other corner", I re-read Brian Greene's 'The Elegant Universe', I read an interesting book by a former Army remote viewer named David Morehouse. Book was "Psychic Warrior." Morehouse claims in his book that all the 1995 stories in which remote viewing was 'de-bunked' was actually a bogus story to throw off everyone from the fact that remote viewing did in fact work. Morehouse now runs his own remote viewing school at
www.davidmorehouse.com.
Anyway, I got something else from his book that I wasn't looking for (serendipity) in he lists one of the early remote viewing investigators as Harold Puthoff. So I checked out Puthoff's website, (he's out of the remote viewing business and into the 'vacuum energy' or 'zero point field' area now.) One thing led to another, and I found several papers either co-authored or sponsored by Puthoff's company, "EarthTech International." here is the link for several interesting papers on zero-point energy:
http://www.earthtech.org/publications/index.html
And from there I ended up finding a NASA site on futuristic space propulsion technology at:
www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp/JournalList.html
Anyway, I suppose that all shows where curiousity and web-surfing will take you!
Back to string theory and quantum gravity.....
May the Force be with you,
stevemc2